Ko San, a 30 year-old artificial intelligence expert will be South Korea's first person in space when he flies on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the ISS early next year. Ko has a master's degree in artificial intelligence and beat out Yi Soo-yeon, a 29 year-old female mechanical engineer based on performances and tests during their training in Russia. Ko will have the opportunity to work with two Russian cosmonauts aboard the ISS for about a week. Yi will continue to train and will go in his place if something should change.
Before beginning his training for space travel, Ko worked on computer vision and artificial intelligence at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, but he plans to carry out robotic research after the space mission
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